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“A real-time, high-altitude experiment”: British explorer twins head to the Himalayas to compare modern mountaineering gear with that used by Mallory and Irvine

Ross and Hugo Turner plan to climb Mera Peak for a scientific and historical investigation into how mountaineering has changed over the past 100 years

Who is Jimmy Chin? From finding Sandy Irvine’s boot on Everest to making movies with Alex Honnold and summitting Meru

Who is Jimmy Chin? From finding Sandy Irvine’s boot on Everest to making movies with Alex Honnold and summitting Meru

Asian American filmmaker, photographer, skier, climber, alpinist, author, Oscar winner and the man who discovered Sandy Irvine’s boot. is there anything Jimmy Chin can't do?

China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain

China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain

To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible – giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer heads even reaches their chief’s shoulder. Beside Everest they escape notice, such is the pre-eminence of the greatest. (George Mallory, 1922)

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What is a crux in climbing? Getting to grips with hardest parts of the ascent

We reveal how the crux impacts the overall grade of a route and consider famous examples from climbing history

Who is Conrad Anker? The American 'rock star' climber who discovered George Mallory’s body on Everest

From discovering Mallory to losing his best friend in an avalanche on Shishapangma, Conrad Anker’s career in the mountains is one of extreme highs and lows

Mystery blobs, maligned cities and that terrible Oasis sketch – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Partial remains of British climber believed found 100 years after Everest ascent

The partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest are believed to have been found a century after their ascent of the world’s highest peak

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Everest’s great mystery solved? Sandy Irvine’s remains found 100 years after tweed-clad climber vanished

Everest’s great mystery solved? Sandy Irvine’s remains found 100 years after tweed-clad climber vanished

Whether Irvine and Mallory reached the peak of Everest remains one of climbing’s great mysteries

The Independent UK

British explorer Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine’s partial remains believed to be found on Mount Everest after 100 years

British explorer Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine’s partial remains believed to be found on Mount Everest after 100 years

Mystery of disappearance of climber Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine appears to have been solved 100 years on

Evening Standard

Five bodies retrieved from Mount Everest as melting snow reveals highest peak ‘turning into graveyard’

Five bodies retrieved from Mount Everest as melting snow reveals highest peak ‘turning into graveyard’

An estimated 300 bodies remain on Mount Everest, with global warming melting snow and revealing remains

The Independent UK

Heroism, sacrifice, defeat? The enduring mystery of George Mallory’s final Everest attempt

Heroism, sacrifice, defeat? The enduring mystery of George Mallory’s final Everest attempt

It’s almost a century since the 1924 expedition ended in tragedy, yet the question of whether the climbers conquered the summit remains unanswered

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George Mallory’s final letters to wife published 100 years after fatal Mount Everest climb

George Mallory’s final letters to wife published 100 years after fatal Mount Everest climb

British mountaineer died trying to reach summit in 1924 with his colleague, Sandy Irvine, whose body has never been found

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A Mount Everest mystery cover-up?

A Mount Everest mystery cover-up?

Mark Synnott climbed Earth's highest peak to solve a mystery, but found another upon returning.

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